"...Verizon started a promotion with Google and Android Pay to allow their users to pick up some additional monthly data just for using your device to make an Android Pay purchase. The first purchase will net you 1GB of data and the third time you use Android Pay you will get another 1GB of data. Once Google acquired Verizon’s carrier-back system, Softcard (originally named ISIS), Verizon has jumped on the Android Pay bandwagon.
On the same note, Verizon has done its best to discourage Samsung Pay with its users and does not even allow Samsung to pre-install the app on its devices. Apparently, with Verizon’s strong backing of Android Pay, they must be getting some compensation from Google for this blatant favoritism. Verizon owners of Samsung Galaxy S6, Galaxy Note 5 and Galaxy S7 devices are now able to download the Samsung Pay app from the Play Store and Samsung Pay away."